A 34-year-old Mexican national was sentenced to 151 months in prison for his role in a fentanyl and cocaine trafficking operation.
A 33-year-old man was arrested on drug and weapons charges after police in Bullhead City, Arizona, pulled him over, police said Friday.
Opioid overdoses kill each day. But it's easier to access fentanyl in Arizona than the medications that can help keep people in addiction treatment.
"Institutional knowledge is good, and government is good," said former U.S. Attorney Gary Restaino in an interview with The Arizona Republic.
The other side of the border has been beefed up too. The US Department of Defence has ordered 1,500 additional active-duty troops there to tackle the national emergency declared by Mr Trump. Airborne surveillance has been ramped up to monitor Mexican gangs.
Fentanyl pill seizures by Arizona’s Department of Public Safety have gone up exponentially over the past several years.